NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17883, 10 September 1921, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Malaria-carrying mosquitoes were encs prevalent in England.

Me a carrying sunshades have been sss4 on Brighton promenade. Hongkong can build ships chespe? thail any other country in world. The River Thames is now lover tfeffli it has been for the last 22 yeara. Orders have" been received in Baighms for 36 locomotives for Chinese railways. Milk allowed to go sour and so wasted in London is valued at £90,000 annually,. Lions were kept at the Tower of Landers until 1834, when they were removed ta the 'Zoo.

Coal used for pumping London's supply amounts in normal times to 220,000 tons a year. A sis-mile stretch, of telegraph cahle had been laid in Sweden by aeroplane ovefi difficult country. The largest bell in Berlin Cathedral has suddenly cracked right across. It, is 459 years old this year. Owing to lack of coal, Birmingham Corw poration Gas Department is u&L-g wood for gas manufacture. An area of 30,000 acres of cotton and wheat in Lower Egypt has been devastated by torrential rains. Nigeria has now a population oj 17,000,000, and is as big as the whole of Germany and half of France. The- promotior. or reduction in rank of Chinese officials will depend on tfceir zeal in suppressing the opium trade. The Eiver Avon at West Tiverton waa recently set on fire, owing to accumulations of waste oil on the surface. A walnut at Minster, in Thanet, measures lift, round, and the branches spread over a quarter of an acre. Napoleon's writing table recently brougbs the sum of £5000 at a London auction sale. His writing case fetched £930. A man has just died in Berlin who waa a member of the Germs.n Parliament for 44 years and never mads a speech. There were 16,550 tons of fish delivered at Billingsgate Market in June, nearly 4000 tons less than in June, 1920. A Bill has been introduced into the. Hou&e of Commons to prevent abuse of tha name, uniform, or badges of thf. Boy Scouts. The Brazilian Treasury has approved a credit of 30,000 contos of reis (nominally £1300,000) for the reorganisation of the army.

U The new German commercial iL*g is to be black, white, and redj with, the Imperial colours of black, red t and gold in the upper corner.

By a majority of 83 votes to 74, the Belgian Chamber has thrown oirt th© Bill gjving women the right to vote at provincial elections. Canada's birth-rate for 2920 was 27.47* as against a death-rate of 13,51 par 1000. The marriage rate during the earn© period was 8.94 per 1000. The bronze statue of Joan of Aec, whiris was removed for safety from its place in front of Reims Cathedral in May, 1918, has been replaced. Owing to unseasoned -wood, 200 warpec? doors of houses built by the Buckingham. Town Council have bad to be *=hen down and new ones fitted. Doctors of High Wycombe, England, have mutally arranged for interchange of patients during the holiday season. The plan is working well Ammunition belonging to the French Government, it is suggested, should be preserved by immersion in specially-made cases in certain lakes. At Rennell Island, in the Pactao, a raca of men has been found that are si-ill in the Stone Age, and use only weapons and tools of stone, wood, and hone. A Bescunsfield man who keeps poultry in his orchard found one of bis hens sitting on an improvised nest of grass and rubbish trying to hatch apples. Discbarge of erode oil from vessels is doing inch immense damage to -fisheries round Britain that a law will probably be pasted to prevent the eviL There are now 370,000 motor-cycles in the United Kingdom, an increase of nearly 100,000 on last year. In addition, these are 226,000 private cars and taxis. The proposal to abolish income tax foo members of the British Parliament, and the proposal to increase postage en papers abroad, have both been abandoned. Since the adoption of prohibition in America, the sale of candy tb-sre has almost doubled in value. Last yeaa} £260,000,000 worth of candy was soldi It is announced from Washington, U.S.A., that all the navy yards have bees ordered to close one day each week as a result of the curtailment of naval funds. Constable William Eustace, who has been responsible for the appearance at the police courts of over 5000 motorista, has retired in London after 25 years 3 service. On Bennell Island, the least visited is. the Pacific, the only currency consists of the teeth of flying foxes; the island is surround ed by walls of coral 300 ft.

high. In 1920, Canada supplied Great Britain with exactly twice as much bacon as Denmark did. In 1915 Denmark sent into Great Britain over U times the Canadian total.

At the London Coemty Council Education Committee it -was reported that 248 teachers had applied for a vacancy as principal of a new day continuation schooL

A New York couple, who by mutual agreement have not spoken to each other* for nine years, although continuing to live together, on the expiration ol their pact have renewed it for another nine years.

On the occasion' of the American Independence Day, Mr. Otto Kaan, who during tie war gave op his New York mansion to be used as a club for French sailors, has forwarded a sum of 50,000 francs for the French Navy SchooL

The Portuguese Government baa appointed a oommUsion to ssart negottateons for a commercial agreement between the Governments of British and Portugnesa India to replace the Anglo-Portngn€sn Treaty of 1878 cancelled once 1592. Coinage of silver dollars has been resumed by the United States mint after a lapse of seven years, and tre work erf replacing 279,000,000 standard sQver dollars taken from the Treasury dining the war to sell to Great Britain has been begun.

Of 25.264 officers in the Amercan mercantile marine service, 16,803 are nativeborn and £865 are naturalised citizens. Of 155,024 men, 50.966 are native-born and 10.898 are naturalised citizens. Ci foreigners, the British account for 51S officers and 21,261 men, the Norwegiars for 265 officers* and 5938 men, and 45 officers and 16j528 men are Spanish.

During the France-Prussian war, 1870-1, about 30,000 German troops entered Paris on May 1, 1781. and remained 48 hours, departing on May 3. The terms of peace insisted on by the Pruerians »er ß the cession of parte of Alsace and Lorraine, including Strassbc-urg and Metz, and the payment of the war rndemnity of £20,000,000. The last instalment of the war indemnity, £10,C00,000 paid by France on September 5, 1873. In 1918 a total erf 373,854 -women filed income-tax returns in tba entire United States, and 62.720 vssre residents of NewYork State. Figures show that 107,603 single women not beads of families filed returns and paid taxes aggrogatiag 2.159,781 dollars. Their average net income subject to tax was 2372 dollars. Single males not heads of families reporting numbered 192,981. Single men paid a tax totalling 10,445,976 ddlata, sod their average net inocm& sabjsc* ±® §$2 na 3623 cfoUa*. si